“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”

―Philip Freneau

Monday, October 19, 2015

What's Your Problem?

OLD MAN: What is it that’s green, hangs on the wall, and whistles?YOUNG MAN: I don’t know. What is it?OLD MAN: A red herring.YOUNG MAN: But it isn’t green.OLD MAN: So you can paint it green.YOUNG MAN: But it doesn’t hang on the wall.OLD MAN: There’s a law saying you can’t hang it on the wall?YOUNG MAN: But it doesn’t whistle.OLD MAN: No, it doesn’t whistle... I just threw that in to make it hard to solve

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"All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake; not because it isn't a good thing to improve the world, if you know how to do it, but because striving and struggling is the worst way you could set about doing anything."

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

A State of Perpetual Indignation Over Calculatedly Divisive, Increasingly Petty, Artificial Concerns Conjured Up by Leftists to Confuse the Populace, Weaken Understanding, and Increase Dependency, Thus Creating a Climate Ripe for a Mammoth Power Grab Rendering All Virtual Prisoners in a Gulag.

Yes, Tersires, somehow we've euchred into believing that tolerating and accepting the very worst aspects of the Human Condition is VIRTUOUS. So Vie today is thought virtuous and Virtue vicious.

That's Cultural Marxism for you in a nutshell.

Self-Control, Thoughtfulness, Thrift and Discipline are OUT, and SIN is IN. WHOOPEE!!!

This is what happens when a Western Society tries to function without respect for the Christian God, who is the basis for all worthy principles, and sound judgment in personal relationships and everyday transactions.

God IS Principle, Truth, Love, Intelligence Creativity, and Life, itself, so how could any sane person expect to do well without "Him?" ["Him" being a convenient, longstanding term of reference, not a literal definition.]

Links

On Redemption

To redeem the past and to transform every ‘It was’ into an ‘I willed it thus!’ – that alone I call redemption!

Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

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Andrei Tarkovsky

“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means... I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it’s a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it."